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“and when you love. you let it go. you put it down. you show your shoulders what to do with sky. and love is how. and love is when. and love is why.”
― Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Dub: Finding Ceremony

“We will tell each other that
we can't choose
between one country and another,
we will tell each other
that we kill
even if we don't want to,
we will regret saying it
and we will start
all over again.
Your pain will hang inside mine, mine inside yours, you will
comb my hair, and I will comb yours.
You will press your ears against my wall,
I will press mine against your body,
we will love and search
we will try and live
with what follows us–
but no one can change this:
we are unable to tear
our eyes from each other”
― Nathalie Handal, [(Poet in Andalucia)] [Author: Nathalie Handal] published on

“My monolithic expectation of what a woman’s body was supposed to look like had no bearing on what actually happened to my body. The two things were wholly unrelated. I never became the woman I imagined. And what was I expecting?”
― Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs

“That's what time was like, along with the things occupying it, that it made the feelings connected to any memory seem worthless.”
― Semezdin Mehmedinović, Sarajevo Blues